The Vitio is at the repair shop getting a small indescression dealt with. The insurer RACQ provides $40 per day to hire a car that turned out to be a goldish coloured Nissan Tiida. Coincidentally I had to buy one and it turned out to be the same colour. So we put them together to see if they would breed. A Micra?
The purchase of a Tiida was driven (pun ?) because Marcus is almost 16 and when he reaches that milestone he can get a learners permit. As both the ute and the Vito are automatic, I figured buy a small manual car. So sometime back I went to various car yards to check out what the options might be. I decided on a minimum set of requirements - Small (for fuel efficiency), Manual (For Marcus to learn to drive), 4 doors and enough leg room for adult back seat passengers.
I was quite suprised at how many cars had very little rear seat leg room. I tried VW, Toyota Corolla, Holden, and so on. Even though at over $40k the Audi A4 was out on cost grounds, it too was lacking in rear seat leg room. The Nissan Tiida, while not quite us ugly as the 1970's Citrone and is sufficiently un remarkable that it is unlikely to ever make it onto Top Gear unless they wish to fit their entire crew into their small car.
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